Call to Reaction

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ity is only a feeling in his opi-
nion. That’s sematics. Being an
oppressed minority in Canada, is
more than a feeling. It is high
exploitation — poverty and low
wages, poor education and bad
housing. It means an early
death. It destroys human dig-
nity. It means being treated
with the disdain afforded lesser

peoples.

Already there has been vio-
lence at St. Leonard. There was
killing and looting during the
police strike. There have been
acts of terror. Now we have the
Prime Minister, who himself
speaks for the rich, oppressing
minority, inciting to riot against
the oppressed. :

He suggested that Quebeckers
find a way of by-passing the Ber-
trand government by establish-
ing direct connections with Ot-
tawa, which would, presumably,
become a general headquarters
for the attacks on the liberties
of the people of Quebec. Some
hailed the Prime Minister’s ad-
dress as “masterly.” It was, an

address which should cause all
Canadians concern, because it
was delivered by a Prime Minis-
ter obviously not in control, but
moved by desperation, and pre-
pared to resort to extreme
means. No doubt he was snarl-
ing at his personal treatment in
Quebec in the past, and by the

. latest rubbing of feeling through

the visit to Quebec of France’s
foreign minister Jean de Lip-
kowski.

Messrs. Trudeau, Bertrand and
Drapeau can be made to back
up. The Prime Minister's propo-
sals for curbs, forcible censor-
ship, witch hunts, and an in-
creasing propensity to use the
repressive forces of the state,
can be defeated.

The answer to the attack from
the right is to unite and mobilize
the working people’s organiza-
tions — the trade unions, the
farmers, the peace forces, the re-
formers and the Communists —
to defend their democratic
rights and to expand them, and
for a progressive people’s alter-
native to the program of big
business.

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tion — to ignore monopoly price fixing, the
wasteful squandering of resources on armaments
and imperialist war adventures, the robbing of the
people by means of high interest, high rents and
ever-increasing taxes on low incomes, while the
rich get off easy without paying a single cent on
their capital gains.

But while all this goes on, the Woods Task Force
Report on Labor Relations reported to the govern-
ment that: ‘there has been no marked change in
the share of the national income going to labor

Surely it is clear who — in our private profit
society—makes the price and income and invest-
ment decisions. It is, in the first place, the small
corporate elite who dominate the heights of our
economic life. It is they and their kept politicians
who make all meaningful decisions in their own
class interests. oath

Wage and salary earners, who constitute the
majority of the really innocent public which the
Trudeaus and the Mackaseys are so fond of talk-
ing about, have nothing to do with economic deci-
sions except to organize and fight to improve their
miserable lot as the exploited class in our society.
Yet, they are the producers of all the wealth.

Most assuredly the working class can never
agree with freezing the distribution of the national
income which would perpetuate poverty while
making the rich richer. Surely those who produce
the wealth of the country have every right to
demand a larger share of that wealth. This is what
must be fought for. .

Such an approach is more urgent now than ever
when the threat of a recession could become a
reality, when more and more workers will be re-
placed by the scientific and technological revolu-
tion, when this, and large-scale rationalization
leads to increased productivity at a fantastic rate,
bringing to the fore the need to fight for reduced
hours and a shorter work-week without any cut
in pay.

It is intolerable that any politician should be
allowed to get away with the kind of nonsense
which Labor Minister Bryce Mackasey uttered
when he said: "Unions cannot continue to demand

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South Vietnam reps.

real, a public meeting will be
held in that city’s Paul Sauve
Centre (curling rink) on Friday,
November 14 at 2 p.m. to coin-
cide with and to support the
massive Vietnam moratorium
demonstrations in the U.S.A. on

-November 13, 14 and 15.

The Montreal November 14
meeting will hear from a delega-
tion representing the Provisional
Revolutionary Government of
South Vietnam who are to visit
the city on that day. Mr. E. M.
Sloan; one of the initiators of the
meeting, has also reported that
Docter George Wald, prominent
peace leader in the U.S.A. and
Rabbi Feinberg of Toronto will
be amcng the outstanding Viet-
nam peace supporters to address
the meeting on behalf of self
determination for the people of
Vietnam.

Participants in the organiza-
tion of the Montreal Vietnam
moratorium meeting include Jean
Pelletier, vice president Parti
Quebecois, Donald A. Boyle, vice
president New Democratic Party
in Quebec, Andre St. Laurent,

So Long, Pall

“WE CAN NEVER HAVE THE SAMe PERSONAL
REGARD OR THE COMPUTER THAT WE'VE
HAD FoR You! 4

WHAT Do THEY MEAN--EXCESS PecFirg
PROFITS ARE NEVER EXCESSIVE |”

YHERE IS ASERMON ON THE BENEFITS
OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE WITH A
LAYOFF NGTICE oN WE CTHERSiDe!*

for Montreal meet

Organized by the Vietnam— council member of the Quebec
Moratorium Committee in Mont-~

N.D.P., Michael Stefiuk, Quebec
secretary A.U.U.C., Helene Mey-
naud, Director of the Coopera-
tive Association of Women in
Quebec, Claire Culhane, Quebec
Voice of Women president,
Julius Grey, president Students
Society of McGill University,
Alain Tanguay, vice president of
Students Cooperative Federation
of Quebec, Margaret Watts, So-
ciety of Friends (Quakers), An-
drew Haidu, Social Action Com-
mittee Humanists of Montreal,
Edward Martin Sloan, Executive
member, Quebec Medical Aid for
Vietnam, Henri Paul Labonte,
Representative of the Jeunesse
Catholique Ouvriere, Gilles Teas-
dale, president Quebec New
Democratic Youth, Claude De-
mers, President Ligue de Jeu-
nesse Communiste, Doctor Har-
old Slobod, representative of the
Quebec U.S.S.R. Friendship So-
ciety, Bea Ferneyhough, national
council, Voice of Women of Can-
ada, Norman Massey, president
Quebec’ U.J.P.O. and 11 presi-
dents and two vice presidents of
Montreal high school student
councils.

age

A Vietnamese Child rumm en)
through an American army
near the 101st Airborne ©
base.

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wage increases without accepting the responsiPl

ity to increase production. The only thing “a
justifies wage increases is an increase outrs

and the trend to automation accentuates
need.’ “ai

The Canadian Labor Congress, the Confed? au
tion of National Trade Unions, and the leader.
all unions across this country should condemn jy
approach and demand that the Labor Minis
withdraw his threats or resign his post.

The rejection by the Canadian Congres? de
Labor and the Confederation of National bey
Unions of ‘the idea of voluntary wage res rae |
as requested by the government, is to be wel i
ed. But it does not go far enough, especially 7,
the rejection is based only on its unworkabilify
practice. The government's plan is wrong: © ye

tionary and misdirected. Labor must condem ia, f :

government's policy and present concrete ®
natives.

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while pretending to fight it is a reactionary a |
anti-social policy that serves only the foreigt be
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domestic exploiters and monopolists. It
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tration must be condemned for pursuing SU”
course that can only lead us to disaster. T° st
gle against this policy is essential if Can
survive and its working people shall ever
from the scientific progress in this wonder
we are living in. 3

But the trade union movement must unit
NOW! — and undertake a strong campald

compel the Government to reverse its A be

All progressive forces in our society w!
labor in such a campaign.

The rank and file members in all unions § C
call for an emergency conference of the ~
to deal with this situation. ett!

Such a conference should formulate 4” af
nomic and social policy the working claS> 4g
support, a wage policy aimed at raising pure
ing power, and a ringing call for all-out supe
to all unions that are or will be engaged in "* —
tiations. th?

The real issue is that of a redistribution °,
national income in favor of those who PF”
the wealth of the

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